It has always been routine of the int’l politics that there
is always a flux and abrupt change in it. Some become heroes and others go
down. Few new terminologies are being tossed up, some loopholes are being
detected. The whole world has the same topic of discussion, every tongue is
flowing the same words.
In the
old ages there was no such ease of access to the world’s political
circumstances. It should take months for news to spread across the world. Till
it should spread the matter should have gotten settled down. But even after
taking this much time more than half of world’s population should not be aware
of this news. People used to live their lives in such a way as if every day is
normal.
Print
media was probably the first source that rectified the news system. Events and
new happenings got to spread in a faster way. Years were reduced to a time
frame of Months and months were reduced to days. But this was not that
effective way as required. Not all the people were having access to it nor it
was so elaborate to get a clear image/idea of the happening. Moreover, it was
not live; a lot of new happening should have taken place until you read the
previous/obsolete one.
So, the
world needed a better way. People were in need of such a way through which they
can get better awareness of the world’s happenings every moment.
Radio
was introduced to overcome this problem. Though radio of that time was that
advanced as of today. Its signals were initially available at every location if
you missed to listen something properly it would result in fabrication of
story/news. So, in the meanwhile the print media had got very popular.
So, people started using both print
and electronic media for globalizing the world. These were both used
simultaneously time b/c they were no replication for each other.
Public wanted to access the
changing circumstances in live and visual way. Both the previous Medias were
either lacking visual or live. This was quite a bit more necessary because to
access the world happenings. You can’t get actual awareness of the event until
and unless you watch it carefully.
So, the Television was introduced
to fulfill this need of the society. It really revolutionized the world. It was
publicized a lot. Access was easy. You could both watch, listen simultaneously.
The live coverage was also introduced, where you could get aware of the current
happenings at the time even when it is happening. Later on, talk shows,
analysis and interviews were also introduced through which public could watch
and listen to the views of analysts and
experts, leaders and iconic personalities and analyze the current political
circumstances and have a deep idea and learning of it but with this and of electronic media conspiracy theories also started going
famous. This gone biased and people started to expose every fake and scam
through some other channels.
Social media got popular for exposition of a lot
of matters and happenings. Likewise, Wikileaks exposed a lot of realities that
no electronic media could expose. Similarly, Mark Snowden has also revealed a
lot of realities using the World Wide Web.
In March 2016, Wikileaks
have revealed an archive of about 50,000
emails of Hillary Clinton. The case of Panama leaks has got popularity through
this source of news. Everyday millions of people across the world use to
discuss the same issue. People share a lot of facts, visuals, past history and
much more about current happenings.
But this media has a lot of
fabrications and scams in news. Fake news may get popular within seconds.
Conclusion: We
should take advantage of every technology but will always inquire for the
reality.